The following contains spoilers for the “Mortal Kombat” movie. Stop reading if you haven’t seen the reboot in theaters and on HBO Max.
He got Caged.
There’s big-time Hollywood irony that Johnny Cage, the catchphrase spewing, action movie star of the “Mortal Kombat” video game and movie franchise, failed to make an appearance in the long-anticipated movie reboot that opened this weekend.
The fan-favorite character would chuckle knowing he was held back partially because he’s such a big personality and the potential movie franchise has sought to establish an ensemble cast centered around once-struggling MMA fighter Cole Young (Lewis Tan).
“Johnny’s character is his own gravitational field,” says director Simon McQuoid. “There was a lot of work to get the fundamentals and the world right in this movie. Johnny’s just such a big personality and character that it might’ve thrown that off.”
Whatever disappointment there was with fans not seeing Johnny Cage in the movie, there’s hope for the future.
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The final “Mortal Kombat” scene features world-savior Cole Young returning to the boxing gym where he’d taken beatings for $200 a fight and announcing he was heading off to Hollywood.
As he exits, he passes a poster featuring the Hollywood action star Johnny Cage in a “Citizen Cage”…
